Ottilie Patterson is a blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late-1950s and early-1960s. The vocalist Patterson joined in 1954 the Chris ...
Giles Oakley writes: I saw Ottilie Patterson perform many times with the Chris Barber Band in the 1960s, often when they were backing visiting American bluesmen at the Marquee club in London. It never ...
Most music biopics tell a linear story, chapter by chapter, and then close the book. History as entertainment. The best documentaries, however, act as catalysts, creating a revival of interest in the ...
Ottilie Patterson was one of the most famous ever white female blues singers of her day She was one of the most famous ever white female blues singers of her day. In the 1950s, Comber-born Ottilie ...
POWERFUL storytelling has always gripped Dana Masters who switches seamlessly from performer to presenter for a new television programme lifting the lid on the extraordinary life of Northern Ireland's ...
Ottilie is the story of Ottilie Patterson, the Comber singer who has been referred to as the godmother of British blues. Written by Richard Clements and directed by Matthew McElhinney, it takes an ...
JUST when writer Ron Cassidy began researching jazz man Chris Barber, he discovered another author had a book about the trombone player well under way. So Cassidy turned his spotlight on Barber's wife ...
She was one of the most famous ever white female blues singers of her day. In the 1950s, Comber-born Ottilie Patterson, became internationally known in her field. But when she died last year with no ...
Wide-eyed and diminutive, the singer Ottilie Patterson, who has died aged 79, challenged critical perceptions every time she sang the blues. Before her first appearance on the London traditional jazz ...
She had modelled herself originally on Bessie Smith, the magisterial "Empress of the Blues", and the contrast between her rich, soulful voice and slender, demure appearance never failed to astonish ...
Ottilie Patterson, who has died aged 79 in a South Ayrshire care home, was the Northern Ireland girl who could sing the blues, helping popularise the form in the UK during the late 1950s and early ...
She was one of the most famous ever white female blues singers of her day. In the 1950s, Comber-born Ottilie Patterson, became internationally known in her field. But when she died last year with no ...
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